Champions League: Roma, Inter Prepare to Kick Some Foreign Ass. Or Not.
By: Martha | February 21st, 2007
Really, I have no idea what will happen in these games. (As usual.) It’d be foolish for me to even pretend I did.
I do know, however, that the Inter-Valencia match will be played in front of season ticket holders only, as well as possibly a small group of away fans. The number of tickets reserved for Celtic supporters for the Milan-Celtic match has been set at about 4500, but I can’t find any details about how many Valencia fans (if any) will be allowed into the San Siro today. While Valencia are flying in La Liga — they currently stand third in the table, four points off Sevilla and Barca who are joint top — their away form is distinctly unimpressive. Though they’ve won nine of 11 games at home, away they’ve taken full points from only four of 12. So, despite the absence of Patrick Vieira who picked up a knock in training yesterday, one could be forgiven for thinking Inter have a good chance going into this one.
Roma, meanwhile, are already being attacked by Lyon manager Gerard Houllier, who is criticizing them before the game for the conservative way he expects them to play. Nice, huh? Glad he’s worrying about that instead of, say, getting his team ready or something. Despite a rocky start, Lyon are running away with Ligue 1 and topped their group in the last CL stage, including taking four of six points from Real Madrid. Roma, meanwhile, are yet to lose at home in Europe, but also are coming into this game on the back of a dreadful loss to Empoli over the weekend. So, they’ll either be fired up and brilliant or tentative and edgy. How do you like that analysis?
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FORZA INTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So hyped up for this Match! That Roma/Lyon match should be very entertaining too!! Not long before they start!!
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ROMA had better be fired up for this one. Totti will notch a trick and they win 3-1. They definately were guilty of looking ahead to this game against Empoli and know they need to take care of business.
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It’s halftime in Roma-Lyon right now. 0-0, and I have NEVER seen a slower, uglier, more foul-ridden match. 33 fouls in the first half alone and more diving than the summer olympics. (The fouls are equally divided, but most of the dives are Roma’s, sorry to say, and the ref’s falling for at least half of them.) If I hadn’t just forked over $9.99 to UEFA to watch the stupid game I’d be turning off my computer right now. Both teams deserve to lose. Can we make that happen?
GRR, snarl, etc. Yesterday’s Madrid-Munich game made me cheery-happy all day because it was so beautiful. This one is The Ugly Game personified so now I’m going to be crabby all day, especially if Lyon loses. (Although they don’t deserve to win any more than Roma does.) Again, snarl.
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Wow. 11 cards in that Roma match!
And Laurie, Real-Bayern was fun to watch. (Except for Canna. Ouch.) The rest of the matches yesterday were snoozers. Doesn’t sound like it was all that much better today except the Liverpool-Barca match where Bellamy and his victim, I mean teammate Riise both scored. Anybody have a report on the Inter match?
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DAMN IT!! My head is a little foggy, can someone explain to me what the hell I just watched? Was that Inter tying Valencia 2-2. WTF?????? What a terrible 2nd half. I was so happy after the 1st half. What did Dacourt do to conceed the the free kick that Villa scored on? He got the ball away clean. This is not good. 2 away goals. Simple math now…. INTER HAS TO WIN the next game or at least draw 3-3. I know I’m a genius! Damn, I’m not too happy though.
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Hey, sorry, I don’t want to go about this but I do have a question if anyone can help me out.
If Inter and Valencia tie the 2nd leg 2-2 (in Valencia) again and it goes into extra time and each team scores to make it 3-3 at the end of extra time, would Inter go through with more away goals or would they continue with the shootout?
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I ended up giving up on Lyon and watching most of the Inter match also. Also a sad one. But the funny thing was, the announcers kept saying what a bad game it was and all I could think was how much BETTER both teams looked than Lyon and Roma! (If Vieira had been healthy, you would totally have won.) :-)
And Louise, you’re right. I don’t think Canna had enough caffeine yesterday. He kind of snoozed through the game.
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Paolo, I wouldn’t like to say for certain, but I think that in the scenario you mentioned above penalties wouldn’t be necessary, as Inter would have the away goal advantage. Possibly.
*is not much use*
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Umm, yeah. Me again. Wiki seems to agree that the away goals rule would count at the end of extra time: in the Anomalies section in this entry a shootout was overturned as uneccessary in a very similar situation.
Hope this helps!
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Awesome, Thanks Ruby! I would think the away team would go in a stiuation like this but I wasn’t 100% sure. For some reason I was thinking extra time wiped the slate clean and we had a new 30 min game……….
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